Blender Release notes

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Update: 2.67

 

Freestyle Rendering: Additional information

"Freestyle provides artists with a new tool set for generating 2D line drawing out of a given 3D scene prepared with Blender."

 

Paint System: Additional information

"The stroke system and brush texture access has been unified and as a result there are many more tools now shared across paint modes."

 

Motion Tracker: Additional information

"Camera and object motion solver motion are much more accurate and faster because the Ceres library is used now for the bundle adjustment step."

 

Compositing: Additional information

"Added border for compositor viewer node, which restricts what is to be composited for faster previews."

 

3D Printing: Additional information

"An addon to help with 3d printing is now bundled as well as a new ruler tool and mesh-analysis display attributes such as thickness, sharp-areas and distortion."

 

Node Editor: Additional information

"Node Groups editing is less cluttered and more consistent with other nodes."

 

Cycles Render: Additional information

"A Subsurface Scattering shader is now available, to create materials such as Wax, Marble or Skin."

 

Python Nodes: Additional information

"The API now supports custom node types. Nodes can be defined and registered in python scripts like other UI classes."

 

Tools: Additional information

"New mesh modeling tools: Individual Face Inset, Poke Face and Knife Project."

 

Future updated will be added in to later posts

 

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